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Great American Prose Poems Book

Great American Prose Poems
Great American Prose Poems, A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words prose poem an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated po, Great American Prose Poems has a rating of 4.5 stars
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  • Great American Prose Poems
  • Written by author David Lehman
  • Published by Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, March 2003
  • A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated po
  • A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated po
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Introduction11
"Woods, A Prose Sonnet"27
"Shadow - A Parable"28
"The Exodus (August 3, 1492)"31
"Red Slippers"33
22 "Objects" from Tender Buttons34
Three Improvisations from Kora in Hell39
"Strophe"43
"Antistrophe"44
"Epode"45
"Hysteria"46
"I was sitting in mcsorley's"47
"Calling Jesus"49
"Sentences"50
"Havana Rose"52
"Montparnasse"53
"News"54
"Aaron"56
"Vespers"57
"12 O'Clock News"60
"Esse"62
"Be Like Others"63
"In Order To"64
"Delighted with Bluepink"65
"The Famous Boating Party"66
"Justice"67
"I sink back upon the ground ..."71
"The Story of Progress"72
"Color"73
"Two Meditations"74
"Wonderful World"75
"Footnote"76
"On Happiness"77
"The Allegory of Spring"78
"The Wish to Be Pregnant"79
"The Hockey Poem"80
"Warning to the Reader"83
"A Rusty Tin Can"84
"One Day at a Florida Key"85
"A Supermarket in California"86
Three Poems from "Prose of Departure"87
"Meditations in an Emergency"90
"Schoenberg"92
"Whatever It Is, Wherever You Are"93
"Haibun 6"95
"A Nice Presentation"96
"Disagreeable Glimpses"97
"Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland"99
"Humble Beginning"101
"The Dachau Shoe"101
"Our Jailer"102
"The Lonely Child"103
"On Having My Pocket Picked in Rome"104
"Honey"105
"The Way We Walk Now"106
"Crocus Solus"107
"Not Something for Nothing"107
Three Entries from 20 Lines a Day108
"In the Privacy of the Home"111
"Success Story"112
"From a Lost Diary"113
"Chekhov: A Sestina"114
"The Doorway of Perception"116
"A Performance at Hog Theater"117
"The Pilot"118
"The Taxi"119
"The Rat's Tight Schedule"120
"The Canoeing Trip"121
"The New Father"122
Five Poems from The Reproduction of Profiles123
Three Poems from The World Doesn't End125
"The Magic Study of Happiness"126
"Contributor's Note"127
"Women's Novels"128
"In Love with Raymond Chandler"131
"Borges and I"132
"Everything's a Fake"135
"Doubt"136
"Death, Revenge and the Profit Motive"140
"Five Fondly Remembered Passages from My Childhood Reading"141
"A Story About the Body"143
"In the Bahamas"144
"Tall Windows"145
Three Sections From My Life146
"Freud"151
"History"151
"Football"152
"Appointed Rounds"152
"The Prose Poem"153
"Light as Air"154
"Album"157
"A word is coming up on the screen ..."158
"The Second Greatest Story Ever Told"159
"Same Tits"160
"The List of Famous Hats"161
"Distance from Loved Ones"162
"Rapture"163
"Bernie at the Pay Phone"164
"Triptych"165
"Acknowledgments"169
"So Let's Look At It Another Way"170
"Visions or Desolation"171
"Untitled"174
"Seurat"176
"Stereo"178
"Shoot the Horse"180
"The Wreck of the Platonic"183
"De Natura Rerum"185
"Secret Training"185
"Power"186
"Bases"187
"Middle Men"188
"Imaginary Places"189
"A Conversation About Memory"190
"The Thirteenth Woman"191
"In the Garment District"191
"Agreement"192
"The Chessboard Is on Fire"193
"Nude Interrogation"197
"The Hanoi Market"198
"A Summer Night in Hanoi"199
"Toy Car"200
"Lateral Time"200
"That They Were at the Beach"202
"Why I Hate the Prose Poem"205
"Return to Harmony 3"206
"inside gertrude stein"208
"The Person"210
"Comraderie turns to rivalry ..."212
"On Waterproofing"215
"On Orchids"215
"On Hedonism"216
"On Shelter"216
"The Colonel"217
"Vectors: Thirty-six Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays"218
"Predella"223
"Summer Rental"224
"Pretty Happy!"226
"Tex-Mex"226
"His Pastime"228
"Vanity, Wisconsin"228
"The Inner Life"229
"Kentucky, 1833"231
"Magic (or Rousseau)"232
"Matter"233
"Epistle"234
"Monument"236
"Because the ones I work for ..."238
"Life is boundless ..."238
"Anna Karenina"240
"Anal Nap"244
"An Anointing"245
"Cold Calls"247
"Variation on a Theme Park"254
"The Anthropic Principle"255
"Sleeping with the Dictionary"256
"Invective: You Should Know"257
"Exegesis"259
"Dear Boy George"260
"Bitter Angel"261
"The Bear-Boy of Lithuania"262
"Avant-Dernieres Pensees"264
"No Sorry"266
"Of Flesh and Spirit"268
"Notes on the Orgasm"270
"Always Have a Joyful Mind"272
"Lecture"273
"Death"273
"State"274
"Commencement Address"275
"A Nap on the Afternoon of My 39th Birthday"276
"In C"278
"The Prose Poem"279
"Fish Eyes"281
"The Most Beautiful Word"281
"Intermission in Four Acts"282
"A Defense of Poetry"285
Twelve Epistles from Letters to Wendy's291
"Still Life"294
"Ode"295
"It Could Be a Bird"296
"When Kiss Spells Contradiction"297
"Two Poems from "Blasted Fields of Clover Bring Harrowing and Regretful Sighs"298
"Mango, Number 61"300
"Hot Ass Poem"301
"Requiem"302
"The Page Torn Out"304
"According to the Appetites"305
Two Poems from Masquerade306
"An American Story"307
"The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away"308
"Nepenthe"309
"What We Miss"310
"He appeared then ..."311
Notes on Contributors313
Acknowledgments331
Index of Poems339
Index of Poets343


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